§ Mr. Moonmanasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information is available to her of the number of local authorities in Essex (a) which own and run their own school transport and (b) which use private contractors; and what percentage of schoolchildren in each case uses this transport.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonOnly the Essex county council, as the local education authority, is concerned with the provision of school transport. My Department has no information about the percentages of schoolchildren in Essex using the various modes of school transport.